# Text file and javascript
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-file-and-javascript/22243
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [June 1, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-file-and-javascript/22243 "2003-06-01T16:32:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@n1\_0](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/n1_0)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-file-and-javascript/22243/1 "2003-06-01T16:32:18Z")
Does anybody know how to modify or make a text file with javascript ?
For example if I use document.write(“something”) and I don’t want to display it in the screen but i want to save it in a text file.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-file-and-javascript/22243/2 "2003-06-01T17:40:27Z")
You can’t do that with Javascript. You would have to use a server-side language like PHP.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2003, 7:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-file-and-javascript/22243/3 "2003-06-01T19:33:46Z")
Umm, is there a way that flash can send an output from a text box to a text file ?
Because i don’t know any of PHP and i a newbie
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-file-and-javascript/22243/4 "2003-06-01T19:39:20Z")
you would have to send the variables to the php script that would in return store them in a textfile… you’ll need a server-side language anyways 🙂